We’ve compiled a list of courses around Tennessee offering a variety of topics in Afterschool Training for October 2017.
Please check back often, as we’ll continue to update the list with new training options. If you know if training that’s not on the list, please send us a message so that we can get it added.
Growth Mindset and Culturally Responsive Teaching
Wednesday, 10/4 from 9am-12pm
by NAZA (Nashville After Zone Alliance)
This session focuses on utilizing language, reflection and engagement strategies to support the development of a growth mindset in students and adults. Through the development of the growth mindset, participants can explores the personal and professional dimensions of Culturally Responsive Teaching, including understanding our own cultural lens, building authentic and meaningful relationships with students, creating engaging and challenging learning experiences, minimizing social-emotional stress from micro- aggressions, and cultivating student voice and agency.
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Risk Management Mini-Bootcamp
Thursday, 10/5 from 9am-11:30am
by NAZA (Nashville After Zone Alliance)
Do worst-case scenarios keep you up at night? Register for NAZA’s new risk management training, and you’ll feel better prepared to handle day-to-day challenges, as well as protect yourself and your organization if something more serious occurs. Instructor and NAZA’s newest Zone Director, Shelba Waldron, brings 20 years of risk management experience in youth development and mental health settings and will talk about sticky situations including (click below for more information)…
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) & Toxic Stress
Monday, 10/16 from 10am-12pm
by NAZA (Nashville After Zone Alliance)
This workshop will help you gain understanding about how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can impact student behavior, interactions, and experiences in your afterschool program. Taught by professionals from the School of Social Work for Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), this training will introduce you to child development and the complex effects child abuse, neglect, and other toxic stress can affect social, emotional, and physical health outcomes. We’ll discuss resilience factors and trauma-informed tools that will help create a safe and supportive environment, cultivate empathy by identifying and discussing challenging emotions, and build nurturing relationships with youth.
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Get Your Game On! 25 Dynamic Activities for Engaging Youth
Tuesday, 10/17 from 9am-11am
by NAZA (Nashville After Zone Alliance)
Play isn’t just play. When done right, it can be transformational! Play can feed the brain; spark imagination and passions and make “a-ha!” moments of self-discovery and learning come to life. It also provides opportunities to strengthen relationships and create venues for youth voice, creativity and self-expression – all attributes that help develop the whole person. Best-selling authors Susan Ragsdale and Ann Saylor will guide you through a variety of activities designed to tap into youth development best practices AND create fun experiences that keep youth on their toes. Learn how to “engage and play with purpose” with music, movement, 20-second challenges, imagination prompts, connecting with nature, and more!
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Literacy in the Afterschool Space
Wednesday, 10/18 from 9am-11:15am
by NAZA (Nashville After Zone Alliance)
Providers will learn the basic components of literacy and how to address common issues youth may experience. Program providers will also learn how to create a literacy rich environment for students in the afterschool space, as well as walk away with activities they can use with their students to increase interest and engagement with literacy.
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Managing Classroom Behaviors
Thursday, 10/19 from 9am-12pm
by NAZA (Nashville After Zone Alliance)
This session is aimed to help improve overall instructional and behavioral management skills through planning, implementing, and maintaining effective classroom practices. Such practices provide a framework for order and organization in classrooms and provide opportunities for students to begin to manage their own learning opportunities. Additional goals are to improve student task engagement, reduce inappropriate and disruptive student behavior, promote student responsibility for academic work and behavior, and improve student academic achievement.
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Youth Mental Health First Aid
Friday, 10/27 from 9:30am-5:30pm
by NAZA (Nashville After Zone Alliance)
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach afterschool providers, teachers, health and human services workers, family members, caregivers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, eating disorders, and more.